This collection of photographs from the University of Washington Libraries includes actors and entertainers who were on the American stage in the 19th century. Also included is an essay on 19th century actors in the US.

AATA Online provides access to abstracts of literature pertaining to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage, including works of art and archaeological and architectural sites and materials. Coverage includes journals, books, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations, audiovisual and digital resources, "Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts" (AATA), abstracts published by the Fogg Art Museum and the Freer Gallery of Art and all of the AATA special subject supplements.

Note: The database does not require registration but users may register, at no charge, to set personal preferences and save searches.

ABI/Inform Complete is a comprehensive business database which includes a large number of full text journals, dissertations, working papers, newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times, and country and industry reports and data.

Academic Search Complete is a multidisciplinary full text database which provides access to more than 5500 full text periodicals, the majority of which are peer-reviewed. It also includes abstracts for more than 9500 journals, and contains pdf content back as far as 1865. The database also includes monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.

A project of the Legal Studies, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, ACJNet makes available information and educational resources on justice and legal issues of interest to Canadians. There are links to Canadian news releases relevant to law and justice; a section on Canadian Law with quick access to bills, cases, by-laws, statutes, and other primary legal materials; information about law-related services; and a resource centre that links to electronic journals, magazines, newspapers and common ready reference tools such as dictionaries.

ACLS Humanities E-Books (HEB) is an online, fully searchable collection of 4,680 books of high quality in the humanities and related social sciences. Frequently cited in the literature, these titles are recommended by scholars and learned societies, and include many prize-winning works. Users may also access online book reviews from leading journals.

Search this database from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) to access quality information in the scientific computing field. Includes full text articles from ACM magazines, journals and conference proceedings as well as publications from affiliated organizations.

This collection of sheet music is part of the Library of Congress' American Memory site. Each piece of sheet music has been digitized in its entirety, including the covers, many of which are quite decorative.

The World Health Organization, in collaboration with the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA), has developed an international index to improve access to what has been published on health issues in African countries and to promote global visibility of African medical and biomedical publishers.

This indexing and abstracting service focuses on materials published about the sub-Saharan African region. It deals with a range of topics in the social sciences and humanities, including history, anthropology, geology, language and literature, geography and ecology.

The database indexes books, government documents, articles in edited books, journal and other periodical articles, theses and dissertations, conference papers, and videocassettes published in English about African women. It is an "outgrowth of a three volume work published in 1989 by Greenwood Press that indexed materials on African Women published during the International Women's Decade, 1975-1985."

This database of medication information is a recognized standard for patient drug information. This trusted, independent resource is the backbone of consumer drug information for many popular websites, including the National Library of Medicine.

“The archival collection includes many aspects of the history, tall tales, humour and stories of Alberta. Manuscripts, reminiscences, stories, plays, poems, photographs and other materials are included. The collection, which contains approximately 1,000 accessioned items, is housed in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library. The archive was collected by the University of Alberta between 1942 and 1946 under the directorship of Robert E. Gard.”

Access current and past issues of "The Alberta Gazette," the "official newspaper" of the Government of Alberta. Published twice a month by Alberta Queen's Printer, the Gazette includes new and amended Regulations, assorted government notices, and private sector public notices that are required by Statute to be published.

The University of Calgary Press, with the support of the Alberta Law Foundation, provides access to “the documents that form Alberta's legislative history”. The database includes statutes up to 1990, Legislative Assembly Bills, Debates and Journals, the Alberta Gazette and the Ordinances of the Northwest Territories prior to the birth of Alberta.

This collection from the American Memory site includes digitized versions of dance instruction manuals held by the Library of Congress. It also provides information on etiquette, the history of dance, anti-dance literature and theatrical dance history.

Access full text articles from the journals Environmental Science & Technology, and the Journal of Chemical Education. You can also view over 1000 open access articles.

Note: To access full-text articles, select either Environmental Science & Technology or the Journal of Chemical Education from the Publications A-Z list. To browse open access articles, select "View all 1,000+ Open Access Articles".

Access a searchable database of digitized AMNH scientific publications: American Museum Novitates, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History and Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History.

Newswire provides access to current world-wide news from Associated Press. This collection includes AP Top News, WorldStream, Financial News, AP online, U.S. Politics & Government and 50 states. The full text content is archived for 30 days.

From the Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, the University of Florida, this database provides information about research articles, books and reports on plant ecology, physiology, utilization and control.

Supported by the University Library System, University of Pittsburg, this electronic repository and archive provides access to research materials on the topic of European integration and unification. Coverage includes independently-produced research materials and official European Community/European Union documents.

Access a digital archive of recordings and texts pertaining to the indigenous languages of Latin America. The archive includes naturally occurring discourse in a wide range of genres, including narratives, ceremonies, oratory, conversations, and songs. Transcriptions and translations in either Spanish, English, or Portuguese are available for many of the recordings. The collection also includes original literary works, materials about the languages, as well as teaching materials.

Note: Access to archive resources is free of charge. There are some special access restrictions. You will have to register and login in order to access any archive resource, but you can browse the catalogue without registering.

Use this site to search archival holdings across Canada and access Provincial and Territorial Archival Networks, and search or browse virtual exhibits that include digitized photographs, maps, documents and other resources pertaining to Canada's history.

ArchiviaNet, the National Archives of Canada's online research and consultation tool, provides access to a variety of information resources related to the actual archival holdings. It allows a number of different means of exploration of the fonds and collections by offering the option of searching by theme or by type of document. Some of the finding aids describe groups of documents, while others describe individual items, of which some are digitized and available online.

The ASTIS database contains abstracts of government, academic and industry publications and research projects about northern Canada, and is maintained by the Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary.

The ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to a complete on-line version of the first edition of The Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une Société de Gens de letters, published under the direction of Diderot and d'Alembert between 1751 and 1772. The Encyclopédie had an enormous impact, classifying learning in the sciences and arts and propagating the ideas of the French Enlightenment.

This project represents a broad range of written French -- from novels and poetry to biology and mathematics -- stretching from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

This corpus of French texts was an important resource not only for lexicographers, but also for many other types of humanists and social scientists engaged in French studies - on both sides of the Atlantic. The result of this realization was American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL) -- a cooperative project established in 1981 by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the University of Chicago.

The ARTFL project has focused on three objectives over its long history:

* to include a variety of texts so as to make the database as versatile as possible;
* to create a system that would be easily accessible to the research community;
* to provide researchers with an easy-to-use but effective tool.

At present, ARTFL's main corpus, ARTFL-FRANTEXT, consists of nearly 3,000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are about equally represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. In most cases standard scholarly editions were used in converting the text into machine-readable form, and the data contain page references to these editions. The FRANTEXT corpus is updated as new high-quality digital texts become available.

A citation index allows you to search an article's cited references and enables you to use a published article that you know to locate later articles that cite it. This index covers the world's leading arts and humanities journals and individually selected, relevant items from thousands of major science and social science journals.

This repository of images in the visual arts is made available through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the creator of JSTOR. The collection comprises images from architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design and other forms of visual culture. Collections include Art History Survey, Asian Art, MoMA Architecture and Design, Native American Art and Culture from the Smithsonian, History of Women in America, and more.

Note: Images will bear an "evaluation copy" watermark. To view images without this watermark register (free) with ARTstor and then go to http://www.artstor.org/ . This will provide you with access to watermark-free images for 120 days, after which you will need to go to ARTstor through the AU Library databases page to renew the 120 day remote access period.

This site provides online access to printable maps of the provinces and territories. It also includes maps relating to the environment, history, economy, climate change, health, fresh water, as well as topographic maps.

AU Press is the centre of scholarly publishing expertise for Athabasca University, Canada's Open University. It is the first scholarly press to be established by a Canadian university in the twenty-first century. We are dedicated to the dissemination of knowledge and research through open access digital journals and monographs, as well as through new electronic media.

Our geographical focus is on Canada, the North American West, and the Circumpolar North. One of our mandates is to publish innovative and experimental works (in both fiction and non-fiction) that challenge established canons, subjects, and formats. We cultivate the areas of open-, distance-, and e-learning. We promote neglected forms such as diary, memoir, and oral history.

The Avalon Project provides access to a collection of digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Documents date from pre-18th Century to the 21st Century. It is possible to browse collections by century, or by major collections, or to search across the database.

Bab.la offers translations in many different languages, ranging from colloquial and regional expressions to more technical or field-specific vocabulary. Special features include search filters, synonyms, pronunciation, and sample sentences.

Access current and historical statistics from the Bank of Canada, including exchange rates, interest rates, price indexes, and monetary policy indicators. The site includes additional resources such as a currency converter and an inflation calculator.

Now in its Fifth Edition and featuring completely reshot content and new clinical skills videos, Bates' Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.

The BC Historical Newspapers project features digitized versions of historical papers from around the province. The titles, which range from the Abbotsford Post to Westward Ho!, date from 1865 to 1994.

The Beazley Archive is a research unit of the Faculty of Classics and is housed at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. The electronic archive is comprised of digitized photographs of Greek pottery, gem impressions, drawings, bibliographies, and a dictionary of vocabulary relating to Greek history, myth, geography, art and architecture.

A Joint Project of the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies and the Museum Library of the University of Pennsylvania, this database provides access to bibliographic information pertaining to Mesoamerica (Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica). Coverage includes archaeology, art history, ethnography, ethnohistory, linguistics, and physical anthropology.

This database provides access to research materials in the areas of biology, botany, environmental science, wildlife management, and agricultural economics. Select full text is available from some journals.

BioMed Central is an independent publishing house committed to providing immediate free access to peer-reviewed biomedical research. Provides access to over 300 open access journals. It is possible to use BioMed to search for journals in PubMed.

BioOne provides access to full text bioscience research journal articles. The focus of this database is content published by small societies and non-commercial presses.

Note: AU Library does not provide full-text access to subscription content in BioOne. To access subscription-only articles, please contact the AU Library Information Desk for assistance, or carry out a Journal Titles search to see if the article you need is available in another database. To view a complete listing of open access journals available in BioOne, please visit BioOne Open Access Titles.

Access over 1200 plays written by more than 200 playwrights from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. The collection includes information about characters, productions, theaters, and production companies as well as selected playbills and production photographs.

BOLDE contains details of books, articles, conference papers and reports on various aspects of distance and online education, from publishers in Australia and overseas. Material is drawn from the Australian Education Index, produced by Cunningham Library, with additional material sourced from a variety of international organisations and publishers. There are currently 11,847 records in the research bank.

This dictionary reflects the transformation that the academic study of religion has undergone within the last twenty years. The dictionary contains a large number of entries and illustrations, sometimes tracing religion in unexpected places. The Brill Dictionary of Religion also contains some historical background to allow for additional understanding of both religious concepts and traditions.

This encyclopedia provides information on China from its early beginnings up to today, with a focus on the modern period from the mid-nineteenth century to the 21st century. A wide variety of topics are covered, including the history, geography, society, economy, politics, science, and culture of China.

Brill's New Pauly is the English translation of Der Neue Pauly. This is an encyclopaedia of the ancient world. It is intended as an aid for the study of Greek and Roman culture and its multifaceted presence in all periods of European and, since the Early Modern period, world history.

Access detailed accounts spanning 1500 to 1900 in the letters and diaries of women who were resident in Ireland or the British Isles for a significant time. The collection includes published letters and diaries and some unpublished documents as well as biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Brockelmann Online consists of both original volumes Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (GAL) by Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), as well as the three supplement volumes, including the indexes. The full text is searchable, making it much easier to consult for researchers and students. Brockelmann's Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on the classical period. The multi-volume reference work is divided in chronologically organized sections, which are subdivided by literary genre. Individual entries typically consist of a biographical section and a list of the author's works in manuscript and print, with references to secondary literature.

This database is a collection of French language articles in the humanities and social sciences. Full text coverage is available from 2001. The main subject areas covered by CAIRN are history, economics, psychology, political science and sociology.

Note: AU Library no longer has full text access to this resource. If you would like a copy of an article you have found in CAIRN, please contact the Library Information Desk at library@athabascau.ca.

Cambridge Core provides access to unique, scholarly content published by Cambridge University Press, in one user-friendly and fully searchable online platform.

Note: This resource combines the e-book database Cambridge Histories Online and partial access to the journal article database Cambridge Journals Online.
Temporarily, access to the online journals is 2004-2007. We are working on correcting this situation. If you need a more current article, please submit an interlibrary loan request. We will get it for you as quickly as possible. We apologize for the incovenience.

Access all 18 volumes of “ the most important work of literary history and criticism ever published.” Coverage includes poetry, fiction, drama, essays, history, theology and political writing from the Middle Ages to the early 20th Century.

OCLC's Catalog of Art Museum Images Online — is a growing online collection documenting works of art from around the world, representing the collections of prominent museums. CAMIO highlights the creative output of cultures around the world, from prehistoric to contemporary times, and covering the complete range of expressive forms.

Works of art may be used for educational and research purposes during the term of the subscription, if they are properly credited. Images may not be published or otherwise distributed.

Access hundreds of Canadian multimedia collections created by Canadian youth, as part of the Government of Canada's Youth Employment Strategy. Coverage ranges from federal institutions, such as the National Library of Canada, the National Archives of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, to the local histories and way of life of Canadian communities.

This image/text database from The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art aims to document the work of Canada's professional artists, graphic designers, and art writers and to introduce and showcase them to a global audience.

For over 25 years, small and medium-sized businesses have turned to the Canadian Business Compliance Manual for up-to-date, reliable answers to their accounting, legal and financial questions. Covering the issues that matter, it is your essential guide for critical information on the legal and business requirements, and the administrative and compliance issues every Canadian business must know.

Start here to find information about Canada that was collected in the 2011 Census of Canada. There is a link to earlier Censuses. The link below enables you to search for information about specific communities. There are links to the new National Household Survey and previous versions of the Census.

Access historical information on disasters which have directly affected Canadians, at home and abroad, over the past century. Coverage includes disasters triggered by natural hazards, technological hazards or conflict (not including war). Find out where and when a disaster occurred, who was affected, and a rough estimate of the direct costs.

Natural Resources Canada provides access to a fully interactive database of scientific literature citations and abstracts related to efficacy, environmental acceptability and cost-benefits of techniques used to control competing vegetation, insects and diseases in Canadian forestry.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research Collection provides access to approximately 3,000 manuscripts that stemmed from research funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) from 2009 to 2017. The manuscripts housed in this collection were originally deposited with the PubMed Central Canada web-based repository of health and life sciences research publications. As PubMed Central Canada was decommissioned in early 2018 this small set of manuscripts has been moved to this platform to ensure ongoing access on a bilingual, Canadian server.

Access essays and book reviews from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press) as well as a number of ECW Press monographs, biographies, essays and literary criticism. Made available through the TAL Subscriptions Alberta agreement.

Note: To search a number of EBSCO databases at once, click on the "Choose Databases" tab from the database search screen.

This site is one of The Library and Archives of Canada's digital collections. It includes a brief history of mail order catalogues in Canada and also provides digital access to catalogues from a variety of companies.

Canadian Newsstream "offers unparalleled access to the full text of nearly 300 newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s and 1980s. Content is updated daily so researchers always have timely access to new information".

Search the integrated archival union lists of publicly-accessible archives in Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories and the Yukon. There are links to search separately the Archives Network of Alberta (ANA), the British Columbia Archival Union List (BCAUL), the Northwest Territories Archival Network (NWTAN), and the Yukon Archival Union List (YAUL).

The Canadian Opinion Research Archive makes available commercial and independent surveys to the academic, research and journalistic communities. Founded in 1992, CORA contains hundreds of surveys including thousands of discrete items collected by major commercial Canadian firms dating back to the 1970s.

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre is designed to present various points of view on topics of current interest in Canada, and includes help sheets for writing thesis statements and evaluating materials for accuracy. Essays included within this database have been written specifically for this database.

The Encyclopedia was originally conceived and developed by Gaetan Charlesbois, a Montreal theatre critic, playwright, and actor. The site collects and disseminates information on Canadian plays, playwrights and theatre practitioners. The editorial board is comprised of members of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research.

Access current cancer statistics in Canada. The database shows trends in cancer incidence by province and territory, by age group, over time, and for different cancer sites. Includes graphs and tables and instructions for downloading the information.

Access Canadian judicial and legislative documents from federal, provincial and territorial jurisdictions through CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute). CanLII is an excellent source for case-law and statutes and regulations.

Access current cardiovascular disease statistics in Canada. The database shows trends for cardiovascular disease mortality and hospital separations by province and territory, by age group, over time. Includes graphs and tables and instructions for downloading the information.

The Catalogue of Fishes, produced by the California Academy of Sciences, is an online directory of approximately 56,000 species and subspecies of fishes. It also includes images of fishes held in the CAS collection.

CBCA Complete is a comprehensive database of Canadian materials, and comprises CBCA Business, CBCA Education, and CBCA Reference & Current Events. It includes full text journal articles, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.

Access some of the principal education literature published in Canada, including over 265 journals on teaching, educational research, and administration from current general and specialized magazines and newspapers.

Note: CBCA Business, Education, Reference, and Current Events databases can be searched simultaneously through CBCA Complete.

This collection includes newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, general and news magazines, and academic journals on Canadian current affairs topics including business, culture, literature, language, agriculture, history, government, and politics.

Note: CBCA Business, Education, Reference, and Current Events databases can be searched simultaneously through CBCA Complete.

The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. Founded in 1949, CRL supports advanced research and teaching in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences by preserving and making available to scholars a wealth of rare and uncommon primary source materials from all world regions.

CRL's deep and diverse collections are built by specialists and experts at the major U.S. and Canadian research universities, who work together to identify and preserve unique and uncommon documentation and evidence, and to ensure its long-term integrity and accessiblity to reesarchers in the CRL community.

The CCRIS database was developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and contains chemical records with carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition test results. Data are derived from studies cited in primary journals, current awareness tools, NCI reports, and other sources. Test results have been reviewed by experts in carcinogenesis and mutagenesis.

This database of original source materials contains items which relate to the interaction between China and the West dating from the time of the first embassy to China in 1793. Each document is fully searchable, and the manuscripts have been indexed for easy access.

The former Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks have become part of the Chinese Research Perspectives series. As before the focus is on the six research areas: Economy, Education, Environment, Law, Population and Labor, and Society. The selection of contributions covers developments in China of particular interest to a Western (non-Chinese speaking) audience and occasionally differs from the Chinese-language yearbooks. The selected materials continue to provide Western readers with firsthand insights into the discussions of China’s top scholars on contemporary issues in their country.

Access full text and citations for journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. Includes legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials.

The Center for International Rehabilitation Research Information and Exchange (CIRRIE) database provides access to citations of international disability and rehabilitation research published between 1990 and the present.

CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.

The Classical Scores Library provides full access to printed music scores from a range of composers and publishers. In addition to the full scores being available, it is also possible to listen to a recording of pieces if they are available in the corresponding Classical Music Library database.

The Canadian Medical Association. Provides access to guidelines that are produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel.

For current Canadian and world news access the CNW Group website. The site includes news releases, Webcasts, photos, multimedia presentations and many other resources. Established in 1960, CNW Group is a leading and legitimate part of Canada's journalistic and financial reporting processes, recognized in all major newsrooms and financial institutions as a key element in the dissemination and receipt of timely information directly from source.

This database indexes and provides access to original and transcribed full-text documents. The collection includes Mexican Franciscan manuscripts from the 14th to the 19th centuries, literary Mexican periodicals of the 19th century, documents concerning Mexicans in the 19th century, and e-books.

Collins Dictionary of Law is "designed to be a constant companion for all law students, and is the essential reference guide for the layman, particularly business professionals who need access to the special terminology of the law, including that of the European Union." Made available through xreferplus.

Common Ground Research Network's Interdisciplinary Social Sciences database is a collection of journals and a book series exploring disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, and between the social, natural and applied sciences.

The Community Information Database (CID) is a free internet-based resource developed to provide communities, researchers, and governments with access to consistent and reliable socio-economic and demographic data and information for all communities across Canada. The CID was developed by the Government of Canada’s Rural Secretariat in collaboration with the provinces and territories, other government departments, and community groups. The CID provides: * Access to over 500 pieces of data about your community or region, including: population, education, income, employment, families, and much more * An interactive map for displaying and accessing data * A tool for you to learn more about rural Canada

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) aims to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across many systems. As of today, CORE gives you access to millions of scholarly articles aggregated from many Open Access repositories.

This database provides access to articles in many different areas of criminal justice, including family, environmental, business and civil law, criminology, health policy, and law enforcement and corrections.

Use Commonwealth Universities Database Online Service (CUDOS) to locate higher education data from around the world. Information about Association of Commonwealth Universities members includes five searchable areas: institutions, staff, research interests, study areas and scholarship information.

DART - Europe E-Theses Portal is the site of the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The resource includes over one hundred thousand doctoral theses from fourteen European countries.

The DLI provides faculty, staff, and student associated with Canadian academic institutions with affordable access to Statistics Canada databases for teaching and research. If you need access to data that is available through the Data Liberation Intiative, please contact Doug Kariel.

Alan V. Deardorff, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at University of Michigan, is responsible for this glossary. It includes definitions, links to definitions and, where appropriate, links to additional information. Bibliographic information as well as origins of concepts and terms enhance the value of the glossary.

This database contains primary documents, the majority of which are available for the first time in digital form. Documents include ephemera, diaries, periodicals, letters, and poetry, among other things, and have been fully indexed to allow easy access to the content.

Der Neue Pauly is the original publication of Brill's New Pauly in it's German form. Brill's New Pauly is an encyclopaedia of the ancient world. It is intended as an aid for the study of Greek and Roman culture and its multifaceted presence in all periods of European and, since the Early Modern period, world history.

desLibris is a collection of digital books and public documents from Canadian publishers which are licensed for library use. desLibris contains over 20,000 books from more than one hundred publishers. Public documents in desLibris are "harvested" from the websites of Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups. There are over 40,000 titles in the current combined collection to date, and desLibris provides 300-400 new current titles every month. New documents are added to the collection on at least a weekly basis, with key titles in the news appearing daily.

desLibris recommends using Chrome or Firefox to view documents on its site.

The ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to the third edition (1552) of Dictionarium latinogallicum, a Latin-French dictionary by Robert Estienne, "the father of modern Classical Latin and French lexicography" .

This dictionary provides basic vocabulary used in British, European and American law. Coverage includes criminal, civil, commercial and international law. Examples are given to show terminology used in context. Made available through xreferplus.

This dictionary and compendium of American and English jurisprudence, is based on a work originally compiled and written by William C. Anderson and published by T. H. Flood and Company in Chicago, 1893. This is an ongoing project dedicated to the idea that “in order to understand past and present Law, you must first understand the British and American definitions of words used and based in common law prior to 1900”.

The ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to Pierre Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique, a rival encyclopedia to Louis Moréri’s Le Grand dictionnaire. “The Bayle Dictionnaire has been called the ‘Arsenal of the Enlightenment’, pillaged and re-edited throughout the eighteenth century by believers and sceptics alike who gathered ammunition for philosophical argument in the work's recondite notes. In addition to the eight French editions in fifty years, the Dictionnaire was translated into English (two versions, 1709, 1734-1741) and German (1741-1744).”

This is a collection of French dictionaries compiled by the ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) which provides access to search four French dictionaries at once: Thresor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne, Dictionaire critique de la langue française, Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, and Dictionnaire de la langue française.

The AU Digital Thesis and Project Room (DTPR) is designed to provide researchers access to scholarly works, and to increase the availability of AU student research. Graduate student theses (2010 and earlier )and projects housed in this repository will contribute to worldwide graduate education, helping researchers--wherever they are located--to access AU resources and knowledge.NOTE: For theses and dissertations from January 2011, visit the DTheses site.

The Dryad Digital Repository is a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. Dryad provides a general-purpose home for a wide diversity of datatypes.

The DTheses site is a joint initiative between the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the AU Library to enable graduate students to submit their thesis or dissertation electronically to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and the Library. The Dthesis repository is dedicated to collecting, storing, preserving, and making accessible digital versions of the theses and dissertations produced by AU graduate students

ECO is produced by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions (CIHM). It is a digital library providing access to more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history up to the late 19th century. The collection is strong in women's history, literature, trade and exploration, and native studies.

Access primary documents that tell the story of interactions between cultural groups and encounters with environments between 1534 and 1860. The database includes letters, diaries, memoirs and other accounts of early encounters. Detailed indexing permits searching by authors, environments, flora, fauna, peoples, events, etc. For example, you can identify all encounters between the French and the Huron between 1650 and 1700.

The netLibrary collection is now known as E-Books on EBSCOHost, and provides access to more than 8000 eBook titles on a range of subjects, including literature and criticism, business, philosophy, religion, political science and psychology, among others.

Note: Ebsco has identified an issue with Ebsco ebooks not showing the content of e-books when using Firefox 45.0.x We suggest that you do not upgrade to Firefox version 45.0. if you are using Ebsco ebooks. If you have problems reading Ebsco e-books, please use another broswer such as Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari (on Macs).

Created from a collaboration between EBSCO and BiblioLabs, EBSCOOpenDissertations is a new, free electronic theses and dissertations database offering access to more than 800,000 EDTs.

Note: To find the full text of items in your search results, please click on the title of the item to open the full record. Scroll down to "URL" to find the web address of the site containing the thesis or dissertation. Please be aware that some theses and dissertations indexed in this collection are under embargo, meaning that they will be unavailable to the public for a specified period of time.

Access country analyses, industry trends, and management strategies from EIU. ViewsWire is updated daily and “highlights up to 250 key economic, political and market developments around the world and provides concise analytical briefings on the implications for business.” Country Report is updated monthly and covers “the political scene, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, and foreign trade and payments” of nearly 200 countries and also provides detailed two-year forecasts. Country Profile puts “an annual perspective on the long-term political and social issues affecting each country, providing a complete introduction to all international markets.”

Ed/ITLib

This database is now known as LearnTechLib. Please visit LearnTechLib to access resource.

Education Research Complete provides access to literature published in the area of education, ranging from early childhood to higher education. In addition to indexing journals, it also contains full text for more than 70 books and monographs, and for a number of conference papers.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection is the premier site for reading, searching, and sharing Duke University Press’s books online. Here, scholars and the interested public can discover essential contributions and emerging thought in the humanities and social sciences.

Search or browse archaeological traditions in this full-text, fully-indexed archaeology database, published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). The documents (books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level for quick retrieval of information.

Search or browse cultures in this full-text, fully-indexed cultural database, published annually by Human Relations Area Files (HRAF). It focuses on mostly pre-industrial cultures from around the world, and on North American immigrant groups. The documents (books, journal articles, dissertations) are indexed at the paragraph-level for quick retrieval of information.

The Eighteenth Century Journals collection contains rare journals published between 1693 and 1799. Topics covered in these journals include all aspects of eighteenth century social, political and literary life. Among the specific subjects covered are marriage, morality, theatre and opera, religion, Alexander Pope, the Irish Rebellion, the French and American revolutions, radicalism and education.

Through this database it is possible to access primary source documents from the 18th century. Materials indexed in this database include letters and other documents, some of which are in the language of original publication.

The Electronic Journals Library allows you to search for academic scholarly journals on the web. It indexes titles that provide full text freely available on the web and those that only provide citations and abstracts. To locate full text for items which are not available freely, please search the AU Journal Title List by the name of the journal.

eLibrary Canada

The AU Library no longer subscribes to eLibrary Canada. Please use the Discover search box tool on the Library's home page. You can also use Canadian Newsstream to look for articles in Canadian newspapers. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Use this powerful business research tool to access full text articles and abstracts from international publications in a wide range of management disciplines including strategy, leadership, library and information management, marketing and human resource management as well as titles in engineering, applied science and technology.

This database of primary source materials covers publications related to aspects of the empire and colonial experience. Topics include cultural contact, 1492-1969, literature and empire, the visible empire, religion and empire, and race, class, imperialsim and colonialism, c 1607-2007. It also contains information on Ireland and the empire, 1607-1969.

Encyclopaedia Islamica is a 16 volume encyclopedia consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world.

The Encyclopaedia of Judaism provides a full account of Judaism, beginning in ancient Israelite times and extending to the present. The encyclopedia covers the religion, its diverse history, literature, past and present beliefs, observances, practices and world-view, and place in the context of society and culture.

This award winning online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore and legends contains over 6100 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world.

This encyclopedia provides access to comprehensive coverage of the issues, concepts, trends, and technologies of distance learning with articles by over 400 international contributors from over 35 countries.

EET is maintained by San Diego State University. It consists of a collection of brief multimedia articles on topics related to instructional design and education and training. There is some particularly useful content for distance education topics as well as for cognition and learning.

The Encyclopedia of Life is a collaborative scientific effort led by the Field Museum of Natural History, Harvard University, Marine Biological Laboratory, Missouri Botanical Garden, Smithsonian Institution, and Biodiversity Heritage Library, a consortium including the core institutions and also the American Museum of Natural History (New York), Natural History Museum (London), New York Botanical Garden, and Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew).

This is now part of the Canadian Encyclopedia and run by Historica Canada. The Second Edition of The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada (1992) is designed to enable musicians, music scholars, students, and music lovers globally to have immediate access to information about music in Canada.

The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, transhistorical and global project. It brings together upwards of 1,000 scholars to write critical essays on women, Muslim and non-Muslim, and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present.

This site allows you to search the online version of the Columbia Encyclopedia, sixth edition. This popular one-volume desk encyclopedia is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles and pictures and maps provided by the eLibrary digital archive.

English Historical Documents Online contains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914. Sources include government and cabinet proceedings, military dispatches, newspaper articles, pamphlets, personal and official letters and diaries. Covers political and constitutional topics and social, economic, religious and cultural history.

Search the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, for indexing and abstracts of journal and non-journal items in the field of education. ERIC Documents (items with an ED number) issued after 1993 are available fulltext.

Access a collection of publicly available electronic books from academic presses on topics in the arts and sciences. The collection is searchable and can be browsed by subject, author, or title. eScholarship Editions are published by the California Digital Library.

This video database provides online access to more than 1000 films on the topics of human culture and behaviour, from influential film makers. The database also contains interviews, field notes, raw footage and and studies.

This database provides market information on countries, industries, companies as well as consumer expenditure information. You may access information either by searching or browsing. The database is now called Passport.How to search and use Passport

This database from the ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to "nearly 2000 texts ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing from the 16th to the 19th century." To access new additions to FRANTEXT search Encore: New Additions to the Main ARTFL Database.

This site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. Journals are listed by specialty, and alphabetically by title, and non-English journals are listed as well.

Frontier Life provides over 240,000 images and 7,895 documents pertaining to the frontiers of North America, Africa and Australasia. This collection has a wealth of primary source documents including 68% of the collections dedicated to North America, and 20% of that material specific to Canada.

Gale Artemis Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Artemis Primary Sources takes users beyond a simple search and retrieve workflow, allowing them to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets.

Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis - the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals - delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It's all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today's researchers demand.

The digital library catalogue of la bibliothèque nationale de France provides access to digitized works, images, and sound resources, the majority of which are in French. Coverage includes history, literature, sciences, philosophy, law, economics and political science and runs from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century.

This database focuses on providing information on gender and work from a feminist political economy perspective. The modules included are health care, migration, precarious employment, technology, unions, and unpaid work.

Note: Please be aware that the call numbers provided in this database may not be applicable in the AU catalogue. To find out if AU Library has an item, please do a title search in the catalogue.

This database provides access to a range of general and scholarly journals and magazines in a variety of subject areas, including history, music, Canadian Studies, business, sociology, philosophy and religion and others.

GeoRef is a comprehensive geosciences database which contains over 3 million references to articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses. While full text is not provided directly through this database, in many cases full text content can be accessed through other databases AU Library subscribes to.

Access a full text archive of the Globe and Mail newspaper dating back to 1844 and current up to Dec. 2001. See also: from 01/01/1997 to present in CPI.Q. from 60 days ago to present in Library PressDisplay

This is a free downloadable tool from Google that allows you to explore the Earth, even your own street, via satellite imagery. Google incorporates directory type information and special features such as images and articles about Africa from National Geographic.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

Search this database for federal government publications from the U.S.A. from about 50 different collections, including congressional committee reports, hearings, bills, journal of the House of Representatives, codes, and economic indicators.

The ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to Le Grand dictionnaire historique, ou le Mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane, etc., compiled by Louis Moréri from 1671 to 1759. Moréri's dictionnaire was an important predecessor to modern encyclopedias and went through 20 editions before it succumbed to Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie. Moréri's work defended the worldview of the Roman Catholic Church, and emphasized historical and biographical entries.

This collection was formerly known as the Canadian Directory to Foundations & Corporations . It provides detailed information on Canadian grant making foundations, corporate community investment programs, and government funding programs. It also includes American foundations that will fund Canadian charities.

Grove Art Online provides access to The Dictionary of Art and The Oxford Companion to Western Art. It includes biographies, bibliographies, entries on art and art forms, geography, styles and culture and time periods.

This database is an open access archive where authors have deposited their research for wider dissemination and preservation. It includes resources across a variety of disciplines, including the sciences, medicine, and the humanities and social sciences.

Athabasca University no longer subscribes to this database. We suggest that you use Health Reference Center Academic for your research or other resources in the Nursing and Health Studies area. The link will take you to the listing of the resources in this area.

This is a portal for Statistics Canada health information. There are links to various surveys, statistical tools, and information about the health of Canadians. Some of the actual data is only be available to AU students, faculty and staff. The descriptions and general information is available to anyone.

This profile features health region data from a number of sources including Statistics Canada's health surveys, administrative data, and the census of population. The application is designed to give quick access to the latest health-related data available for a selected health region, providing the corresponding provincial data by default, but users can easily select any region of choice for comparison.

Search a rich collection of consumer health information, including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health. Made available through the TAL Subscriptions Alberta agreement.

Note: To search a number of EBSCO databases at once, click on the "Choose Databases" tab from the database search screen.

This product presents comparable time-series data for a range of health indicators from a number of sources including the Canadian Community Health Survey, Vital Statistics, and Canadian Cancer Registry. The application is designed to give quick access to recent trends that can be customized by indicator or by geography.

HeinOnline contains a vast amount of information covering England and the United States. The legal classic section covers legal history on a variety of topics from ancient to modern times. A large number of law journals from Canada and other countries can also be accessed from this site. Legal researchers will find information on international treaties as well as information on patents. This database now includes the new Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law collection.

Use this database to locate brief information on 40,000 companies. Includes company location, summary financials, top competitors, top officers, etc. Use the title or company field to search company names.

The Humanities Text Initiative, a unit of the University of Michigan's Digital Library Production Service, collaborates with other U of M units and partners with other institutions to convert, create and deliver online texts and resources. You can access a number of freely available collections on the site.

The IEEE Xplore Digital Library is a powerful resource for discovery of and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. IEEE Xplore provides web access to more than four-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.

This database contains two separate collections, InfoSci-Books and InfoSci-Journals available through IGI Global. It includes every e-book published by IGI Global, a computing science and information technology publisher, since 2000. Every journal indexed in this database is peer reviewed.

Note: If you would like to limit your search to one of the collections then open the database then change "Bundle type" to either InfoSci-Books or InfoSci-Journals.

The Indigenous Studies Portal (iPortal) is a database of full-text electronic resources such as books, articles, theses and documents as well as digitized materials such as photographs, archival resources, maps, etc. focusing primarily on First Nations and Aboriginals of Canada with a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.

Performance Plus is an on-line performance benchmarking tool. It provides detailed financial and employment data on more than 600 business sectors across Canada, including more than 30 performance benchmarks to help small businesses determine how they measure up against their competitors. This tool uses the Small Business Profiles (SBP) created from a sample of Revenue Canada tax returns for both incorporated and unincorporated businesses operating in Canada. Performance Plus gives instant access to benchmark financial data that can help small businesses construct a business plan. This tool also helps new and established firms find out where they stand as compared to a relevant industry average. Performance Plus assists small businesses in making the best operational decisions - quickly, simply and effectively

InformaHealthcare.com combines the pharmaceutical, life science and medical journal titles published by Informa Healthcare onto one platform to simplify your experience, and deliver online content from more than 170 journals.

Search the web site of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations (IIGR), and four databases on federalism and multilevel governance maintained by IIGR, in cooperation with the Canadian Network of Federalism Studies (CNFS).

ICDL, an internationally recognized centre for research, teaching, consultancy, information and publishing activities, is based in the UK Open University. The ICDL Web site includes a literature database containing bibliographic information on over 12,000 books, journal articles, reports, papers, dissertations and other types of literature relating to all aspects of the theory and practice of distance education. If a resource is available online, ICDL provides a link to the electronic address, but full text content is minimal in this database.

The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest provides access to information on events, uprisings, individuals and social movements through entries ranging from 250 to 5000 words. Entries include cross references and suggestions for additional reading, and references for information found in each article.

(Available to Athabasca University faculty, staff, and students)
This yearbook provides access to information about international organization, states of the world, and biographies of the year's major international figures. The online edition of this resource begins with the 2010 (57th) edition.

This archive collects digital material including texts, audio, moving images, and software. It provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.

Access taxonomic, conservation status, and distribution information on threatened and extinct animal species through the Species Survival Commission of the IUCN - The World Conservation Union. The purpose of the IUCN Red List is to determine relative risk of extinction and to catalogue and highlight those taxa at greatest risk.

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is an indispensible resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. Compiled by 275 specialists from around the world, the Guide presents a comprehensive historical survey of the field's most important figures, schools, and movements and is updated annually.

Search this database of hundreds of journals from over 50 publishers and societies covering Clinical Medicine, Behavioral & Social Sciences, Life Sciences, Nursing, Physical Science & Engineering, and Psychology. Full text is included for selected titles, with particular strength in the areas of nursing and medicine.

Search this archive of scholarly journal articles in the Arts and Social Sciences. JSTOR aims to provide access to a complete back run reaching back to Volume I, Issue 1 for every JSTOR participating journal. To protect publishers from lost revenues, recent issues (within 2-5 years) are held back from the archive.

The Electronic Collection of Library and Archives Canada (LAC) includes over 6000 Canadian book and periodical titles published online by commercial and government publishers. The publications exist in various formats, including HTML, PDF, ASCII and others and in some cases software such as Acrobat Reader is required to read the texts. Some titles are labeled "Restricted Access" and are accessible on-site at the LAC only.

Access poetry, drama, and fiction by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States. The collection includes published, unpublished and rare materials dating primarily from the Chicano Renaissance to the present. Additional resources such as playbills and performance material, book covers, and flyers are included.

LawSource provides access to comprehensive primary Canadian law and state of the art finding tools. It contains Case Law, Latest Supreme Court of Canada Cases, Legislation, Carswell law reports, Canadian Encyclopedic Digest, Canadian Abridgment and Index to Canadian Legal Literature.

The ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to Le Grand dictionnaire historique, ou le Mélange curieux de l'Histoire sacrée et profane, etc., compiled by Louis Moréri from 1671 to 1759. Moréri’s dictionnaire was an important predecessor to modern encyclopedias and went through 20 editions before it succumbed to Diderot and d'Alembert’s Encyclopédie. Moréri’s work defended the worldview of the Roman Catholic Church, and emphasized historical and biographical entries.

This is the second electronic edition of le Grand Robert & Collins French - English Dictionary. It includes the entire content of the latest editions of the Collins Robert Unabridged French Dictionary. There is a section on proverbs as well as one for french language usage.

Learned Journals Collection

The Learned Journals Collection from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers is not available. Please use the AU Journal Title list to search for the title of the journal that you are looking for. If it isn't available, please contact the Library or submit an Interlibrary loan request.

We also suggest that you use the Discover tool on the Library's home page to search for articles.

"LearnTechLib is the premiere online resource for aggregated, peer-reviewed research on the latest developments and applications in Learning and Technology. Encompassing more than 25+ years and 100,000+ documents of published international journal articles, conference papers, e-books, and multimedia content from 200,000+ leading authors, the LearnTechLib Digital Library connects research and learning within one platform".

This website provides free audio versions of books in the public domain. Its texts generally are taken from Project Gutenberg, and include a wide variety of materials including literature, and philosophical texts, among other things.

This database is designed specifically for public libraries. It provides access to reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection that includes photos, maps and flags. Made available through the TAL Subscriptions Alberta agreement.

Note: To search a number of EBSCO databases at once, click on the "Choose Databases" tab from the database search screen.

Use MathSciNet, from the American Mathematical Society, to access the signed reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews, beginning in 1940, and Current Mathematical Publications, a current awareness journal.

This database provides full text articles on a variety of subjects including the aerospace industry, business, computer science, energy and mining, engineering, environmental science and political science.

The National Building Code of Canada and the National Energy Code for Buildings set out technical provisions for the design and construction of new buildings. It also applies to the alteration, change of use and demolition of existing buildings.

This site provides citations and abstracts to current and historic First Nations and Aboriginal health research from Canada and the United States. This extensive collection includes articles, reports, and surveys dating back to 1652.

Naxos Music Library provides access to more than 30,000 recordings on the Naxos and Marco Polo music labels, as well as selected recordings from other labels. This collection provides access to music in a range of different genres, including classical, world and gospel.

The Naxos Music Library Jazz collection provides access to approximately 2200 jazz recordings on a variety of labels, including the Naxos label. More than 500 different jazz musicians are included in this collection.

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

This database provides near real-time access to news from sources including Associated Press, United Press International, PR Newswire, CNN Wire, Xinhua, and Business Wire. Content is archived for 30 days.

Access primary documents dedicated to the personal experiences of those immigrating to Canada and the United States between 1800 and 1950. The collection includes hard to find original material and some audio files.

Access biographies, autobiographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, oral histories, video and audio files and images in this collection dedicated to indigenous peoples of North America. This database was formerly known as North American Indian Biographical Database.

This collection represents a “major initiative to provide detailed reference information for every theatrical figure, every play, every theatre, every major production, and every production company, from Colonial times to the present, in both Canada and the United States.” The database can be used to cross-search other Alexander Street Press drama databases.

Access over a 1000 plays by over 200 American women playwrights. The collection includes information about characters, productions, theaters, and production companies as well as selected playbills and production photographs.

Access detailed accounts spanning from colonial times to 1950 in the letters and diaries of women resident in North America. The collection includes published letters and diaries and some unpublished documents as well as biographies and an extensive annotated bibliography.

The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education is a higher education research and monitoring unit within the International Graduate Insight Group (i-graduate), which itself is part of Tribal Group plc. The Observatory provides information and analysis on trends, policy frameworks, and the full range of international higher education activities at both institutional and governmental levels around the world. It conducts in-house research and consultancies. Its purpose is to provide data and analysis for institutional leaders and policy-makers so that they may shape their institutional strategies successfully to the changing landscape in international higher education.

This dictionary of Library and Information Science terminology was created by Joan M. Reitz, Assistant Professor/Instruction Librarian at the Ruth A. Haas Library, Western Connecticut State University (WCSU).

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development provides a wealth of information on economic, social development, and health conditions around the world. The statistics and reports are quite informative.

Search an electronic version of this dictionary, which is a product of Athabasca University and the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP). It consists of approx. 1000 entries covering the disciplines of sociology, criminology, political science and women's studies with a commitment to Canadian examples, events and names.

OpenDOAR, the Directory of Open Access Repositories, is a directory of academic open access repositories. Included in this resource are repositories from global universities and colleges, as well as Libraries, historical societies, and a range of other academically focused organizations.

This site is run by Open Knowledge and is an initiative to building a global cultural commons for everyone to use, access, and enjoy. It does so by working with GLAM organizations, which are galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, to open their content and data.

Notably, this site houses the online journal called The Public Domain Review which is focused on cultural works in the public domain. For more information visit: https://publicdomainreview.org/

Note: Additionally, this site curates lists of open collections from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums around the world.To access their open collections list, you’ll need to create a free account at: https://openglam.org/open-collections/

This database from the ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to vernacular texts, "the majority of which are dated prior to 1375, the year of Boccaccio's death. The verse and prose works include early masters of Italian literature like Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, as well as lesser-known and obscure texts by poets, merchants, and medieval chroniclers".

This collection of maps and images for Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and North America, has been developed cooperatively between the University of Oregon Department of History, UO New Media Center and Department of Geography InfoGraphics Lab. All of the atlas resources contained in the site are original materials produced for this project.

Oxford University Press provides a legal reference of major terms, concepts, and processes for professionals and students in the UK or any Commonwealth country where the legal system is founded on English law. Coverage includes European law, the Internet, world trade, divorce law, local government, property law, consumer and data protection, and criminal law. Made available through Oxford Reference Online.

The OED traces the history of the English language, showing not only the current meaning of words, but also their origins and development through time (etymology). Entries are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world.

Oxford Journals provides backfile access to over 230 academic and research journals published by Oxford University Press in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, law, medicine, mathematics and physical sciences.

Access a cross-searchable web database that brings together dictionaries of quotations, language dictionaries and thesauri, and dictionaries for science and medicine, humanities and social science, and business and law, as well as the World Encyclopedia.

Founded in 1976 and dedicated to encouraging the acceptance of electronic texts within academia, the Archive contains an extensive collection of high quality e-texts and reference works in a variety of languages.

This database provides market information on countries, industries, and companies as well as consumer expenditure information. You may access information either by searching or browsing. This database is sometimes called Euromonitor.

Access University of Alberta's collection of resources dedicated to assisting scholars, students, and researchers of all types in their exploration of the history and culture of the Canadian Prairies. The site contains both an online bibliography of books, pamphlets, and other materials related to the development of the Prairies and a fully searchable collection of the full texts of many of these items.

The site is useful for finding maps (particularly political maps) of areas around the world. It contains up-to-date maps as well as historical maps. There are also a number of maps available with specific themes as well as ones related to current events/issues. The maps on this site are a valuable tool for keeping up with rapidly changing political boundaries around the world.

The Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection provides access to full text articles in the areas of arts, entertainment and sports industries, consumer news and advice, health and medicine, information management, and physical fitness.

PLOS has identified a set of established open data repositories which are recognized and trusted within their respective communities. Repositories listed here are chiefly in the disciplines STEM and social sciences.

PMB - Print Measurement Bureau

The AU Library doesn't subscribe to this currently. One can get some information from the new organization by going to: Vividata.

This database includes information from the PMB survey of Canadians usage of products and services. Demographic data, as well as information about media consumption and attitudes are included

Search a collection of references to northern and native subjects from the University of Alberta. PolarInfo indexes journal articles, northern newspapers, native newspapers, newsletters, conference proceedings, annual and government reports, and other grey literature.

Twenty-one journals from SAGE, previously published by Libertas Academica, are now available through the Portico archive. Most of these journals include published material in the fields of medicine, biology, chemistry, and psychology.

The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.

This collection of databases provides access to materials related to the arts and includes the following databases: CBCA Reference & Current Events: The Arts, CBCA Complete: The Arts, FRANCIS, ProQuest Deep Indexing: Political Science and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: The Arts.

This collection of databases allows you to search for materials related to Business in a variety of ProQuest business databases, including: ABI/Inform Complete, CBCA Reference & Current Events: Business, CBCA Business, CBCA Complete: Business, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Business and The Wall Street Journal (1889-1993).

"With more than 2 million entries, PQD&T is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats. More than 600,000 are available in native or image PDF formats for immediate free download."

This database provides access to 745 top educational publications, the majority of which are in full text. Subjects covered include primary, secondary and higher education, as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.

This database provides access to back issues of a number of American newspapers, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Each issue of these newspapers has been digitized in its original format.

Note: ProQuest Historical Newspapers now requires searching within individual newspaper databases. Please see separate entries for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post to search these newspaper collections.

This database provides access to a range of topics in the applied and general sciences. The majority of the journals indexed are provided in full text, and these include all the images (graphs, tables figures etc.) that accompany the articles in paper form.

Provides full text access to a selection of journals published by the American Psychological Association and other related organizations. Journals indexed in this database are also indexed in PsycINFO.

Note: To search a number of EBSCO databases at once, click on the "Choose Databases" tab from the database search screen.

This American Psychological Association (APA) database provides access to chapters of books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. In additional to scholarly titles published by APA from copyright years 1953 - 2004, the database includes out-of-print books and classic books "of landmark historical impact in psychology."

PsycCRITIQUES, a database of the American Psychological Association, ended publication in Fall 2017. The critiques are made available here in partnership with the APA. PsycCRITIQUES contains full-text reviews of books in psychology and the social sciences, as well as professional videos and popular films from a psychological perspective. Reviews occasionally include comparative or retrospective book reviews. The database also includes all reviews published in the print journal Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books between 1956 (Volume 1, Issue 1) and 2004.

Search the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, and linguistics. Coverage is worldwide, and includes citations and abstracts to journal articles, dissertations, book chapters and books.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. Also access the Entrez nucleotide, protein, taxonomy, structure, genome, expression and chemical databases.

PubMed Central (PMC), "the U.S. National Library of Medicine's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature", provides access to a collection of free and open access full text journals.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the most famous book of quotations and allows you to determine who said what and to find quotations by subject. The site provides a searchable, cross-indexed listing of many familiar quotations, each traced to the original author. You can also search The Columbia World of Quotations or Simpson's Contemporary Quotations.

re3data offers detailed information on more than 2,000 research data repositories. In this collection, data repositories from every domain and in every country can be browsed by subject, country, or content type, and searched by any combination of 41 different attributes.

Search this database to find full text articles in the areas of religion, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, family studies, government and political science, regional and area studies, sociology and social work, and science and technology.

This database provides access to full text, peer reviewed journals on topics such as economics, business, marketing, political science, international studies, health and medicine, law, policy and science and technology. All are published by de Gruyter.

Access Royal Society of Chemistry journals, with over two dozen journals covering all branches of chemistry, including analytical chemistry, chemical physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry.

Note: We are currently experiencing issues with remote access to the Royal Society of Chemistry Journals. If you require an article from one of these journals, please contact the Library Information Desk.

Access hundreds of full text journals through Sage, nearly a third of which are owned by professional associations and societies. The "extensive list of journals spans more than 30 disciplines and includes some of the premier journals in the social sciences and medicine and technology."

Sage Knowledge (Available to Athabasca University faculty, staff, and students) This database provides access to a number of handbooks and encyclopedias on subjects including anthropology, health and social welfare, politics and international relations, business and psychology.

A citation index allows you to search an article's cited references and enables you to use a published article that you know to locate later articles that cite it. This index provides access to major journals across 164 scientific disciplines.

Containing more than 200 full text journals and more than 700 full text scientific reference books, this database provides access to materials across a range of subjects, including biology, chemistry, earth and space science, environmental science, health and medicine, history of science, life science and physics.

ScienceDirect is one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical (STM) literature. Access a selection of journals from Elsevier Science covering all fields of science (including journal titles from Business, Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Social Science).

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The SciTech Premium Collection includes the Natural Science Collection and Technology Collection databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications and more. For researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorial-controlled A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline

The Searchable Directory of Selected Journals in Online and Distance Learning is a list of journals related to online education and distance learning. This database offers both open access and subscription-only resources.

Access "a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions." The collection includes the published recordings of the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of other labels. The collection also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences.

A citation index allows you to search an article's cited references and enables you to use a published article that you know to locate later articles that cite it. This index provides access to journals spanning 50 social sciences disciplines and includes individually selected, relevant items from thousands of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.

This database is an excellent starting point for researching sociology topics. SocINDEX with Full Text replaces and provides equivalent coverage to Sociological Abstracts database along with improved access to full text articles.

Formerly known as Springer-Verlag Journals, from this site you are able to access hundreds of Springer-Verlag and Kluwer journal titles, with considerable full text online. Coverage includes Chemical Sciences, Computer Sciences, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geosciences, Law, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, and Astronomy.

The Encyclopedia is published by The Metaphysics Research Lab Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. Each entry is maintained and updated by an expert or group of experts in the field.

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The Statesman's Yearbook has been published continuously since 1864 and provides access to information about countries, international organizations, essays and fact sheets.

Containing information from the 2011Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, this resource presents a statistical profile for all Canadian communities (cities, towns, villages, Indian Reserves and Settlements, etc.,) for metropolitan areas and for health regions. Includes information on education, income and work, families and dwellings, births and deaths, general population information, and health information. A mapping feature is available for viewing the location of a community within Canada.

The Statistics Canada Web site contains a great deal of information, including: census data, Canadian statistics and tabular data on aspects of Canada's economy, land, people and government. This site also provides directory information and links to other Web sites.

Stratfor Worldview compiles excellent resources on many different subjects including criminal justice, political science, global studies, international relations, and business. The coverage is current in many topics and provides resources in both print and video.

Developed at George Mason University, the Syllabus Finder searches hundreds of thousands of world-wide English-language syllabi posted online by educators. This is a very useful search tool when you are already aware of a relevant book or article. Use Syllabus Finder to search for the title and, if an instructor has listed it in an online syllabus, there is a good chance that other items he or she lists could be relevant to your research.

Search this database for articles on subjects including health, cultural studies, business, earth sciences, literature, and others. The database also includes citations for books on a variety of topics.

(Available to Athabasca University faculty, staff, and students) The ARTFL Project (University of Chicago) provides access to search four French dictionaries at once: Thresor de la langue françoyse, tant ancienne que moderne, Dictionaire critique de la langue française, Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, and Dictionnaire de la langue française. Jean Nicot's Thresor de la langue françoyse is the key to the development of French lexicography.

Search Trade Analyser for data on world trade as well as Canadian imports and exports. This database combines two Statistics Canada products: World Trade Analyser, the world's most comprehensive global trade flow database, and World Trade Atlas--Canada Edition (formerly known as Canada Trade Analyser). Updated annually, this database covers 190 countries/regions and over 600 different commodities. It is searchable by country, world region, year, and commodity.

The long-term goal of TFe is to create an online encyclopedic collection of well-studied transcription factor proteins in the human, mouse, and rat genomes, combining a mixture of both expert-curated and automatically-populated content to provide users with a wide set of information relevant to a transcription factor protein of their interest.

Access plays by North American playwrights from the late 1800s to the present. The collection includes information about characters, productions, theaters, and production companies as well as selected playbills and production photographs.

This collection includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction. This collection is published by the California Digital Library.

This Atlas is the result of collaboration between the United Nations and scientific institutions including the National Geographic Society, the Census of Marine Life and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The Atlas features information about the oceans including maps and statistics, research, climatology, ecology, and information about uses of the oceans. It also covers issues such as food security, climate change, governance and human health. There is a section in which information is categorized by geographical area.

Search for information about specific periodicals and the libraries that have them. Includes millions of listings linked to bibliographic records in WorldCat. The listings provide local holdings information so that users can search for locations of periodicals in their own and other libraries.

The United Nations Statistics Division provides a global centre for data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment, and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.

Voilà, Canada's National Union Catalogue, is a single point of access to the collections of libraries across Canada. Included are books, magazines, maps, music, and more, including works in special format (e.g., braille, large print, talking books, captioned videos, etc.), for persons who are print- or hearing-impaired. Search this for books and material that are held by Library and Archives Canada.

WestlawNext Canada provides access to the decisions and legislation that make up the law. It also includes supporting documents -- court filings, commentary, legislative history, and pending legislation -- which let you look behind decisions and current legislation to get a fuller picture. Finding Tools organize the law by issue and enable you to discover and tie together all the relevant authorities.

Focusing on women in social movements in the U.S. between 1700 and 2000 this collection includes documents pertaining to women and social movements, “document projects” that interpret and present documents, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U.S. Women's History, and teaching tools with lesson ideas and document-based questions related to the document projects.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. The OKR contains thousands of research works including World Bank Group Annual Reports and Independent Evaluation Studies, all World Development Reports (WDRs) plus recent WDR background papers, books published by the World Bank Group, journal articles, and more.

The World Christian Database (WCD) includes detailed information on all major world religions. Extensive religious and secular statistics are available on 9,000 Christian denominations, 238 countries and 13,000 ethnolinguistic peoples, as well as on 5,000 cities and 3,000 provinces. The WCD incorporates the core data from the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) and World Christian Trends (WCT).

The World Religion Database (WRD) contains detailed statistics on religious affiliation for every country of the world. It provides source material, including censuses and surveys, as well as best estimates for every religion to offer a definitive picture of international religious demography. It offers best estimates at multiple dates for each of the world's religions for the period 1900 to 2050.

The site allows you to look up acronyms (words formed from the initial letters of other words) and abbreviations. This dictionary does not distinguish initialisms (each letter pronounced separately e.g. CBC) from acronyms (pronounced as a word e.g. NATO). This is not an exhaustive source for acronyms, but is updated based on submissions and failed searches.

Use WorldLII (World Legal Information Institute) to search over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries, including the databases of world-wide Legal Information Institutes such as CanLII. This is an excellent source for researching case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, and law journals from around the globe.